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eg co wer. . © Sa ee: aH Fae RL LT eG “~ Oe me hey hy At, i one. Pads NY 100-161445 i | . , 7 ; 4. - "'When I got off the plane, I asked the cab driver what leppened in Chicago and he talked about pigs and riots in the streets and Yippies. He never mentioned the Presidential nominee. That's not news any.more. So as far as I'm concerned, we totally won the Battle of Chicago’. "The battlefield, he said, was never really the parks-Lincoln or Grant-but television and the press. 'I think Daley was right when he said it was the newsmen and TV that brought the demonstrators there. Many of us understand ‘the use of mass media as both a weapon and a battleground. In this country, its what's 'news' thet's going to determine the future and what's news is violence.’ "Of the Chicago police, Heffman said, ‘Their performance was beautiful. It was perfect. "'They put us in a position where all we had to do was demand law and order, never mind our Constitutional or ‘human rights, just law and order. All] w had to do was stand around and they would break every law in the book'". H. Miscellaneous The "New York Post", a New York City daily newspaper, in its June 14, 1968, issue of page 23, sets forth an article entitled "Yippie Chief Arrested in Pot Bust", which states as follows: , . “Jerry Rubin, one of the leaders of the Youth International Party-the 'Yippies' - is under arrest on charges of possession of marijuana. "Narcotics Squad police arrested Rubin, 29, in his apartment at 313 E. Third St., last night. Rubin, who was active in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, was one olf the directors of last October's anti-war demonstration at the Pentagon. He has desaibed the Yippies as ‘politically oriented hippies’.